Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Why Mitt Romney Is Unlikable

This just in from my friend Poppy who lives inside a tower (She and her hubby owns.) in Scotland.

A lot is being said in the media about
Mitt Romney not being "likable" or that he doesn't "relate well" to
people. Frankly, we struggled to understand why. So after much
research, we have come up with a Top Ten List to explain this
"unlikablility."

5. Highly intelligent.
Graduated cum laude from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business
School...and by the way, his academic records are NOT
sealed.

6. Doesn't smoke or drink alcohol,
and has never done drugs, not even in the counter-culture age when he went
to college. Too square for today's America?

7. Represents an America of
"yesterday", where people believed in God, went to .church, didn't screw
around, worked hard, and became a SUCCESS!

8. Has a family of five
great sons....and none of them have police records or are in drug rehab.
But of course, they were raised by a stay-at-home mom, and that "choice"
deserves America's scorn.

9. Oh yes.....he's a Mormon. We need to
be very afraid of that very strange religion that teaches its members to
be clean-living, patriotic, fiscally conservative, charitable,
self-reliant, and honest.

10. And one more point.....pundits
say because of his wealth, he can't relate to ordinary Americans. I guess
that's because he made that money HIMSELF.....as opposed to marrying it or
inheriting it from Dad. Apparently, he didn't understand that actually
working at a job and earning your own money made you unrelatable to
Americans.

His Father: George W. Romney, former Governor of the
State of Michigan

He was raised in Bloomfield Hills ,
Michigan

He is Married to Ann Romney since 1969; they five
children.

Education:
B.A. from Brigham Young
University,

J.D. and M.B.A. from Harvard
University

Religion:
Mormon - The Church of Jesus Christ of the
Latter-Day Saints

Working Background:
After high school,
he spent 30 months in France as a Mormon missionary.

After going to
both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School simultaneously, he
passed the Michigan bar exam, but never worked as an attorney.

In
1984, he co-founded Bain Capital a private equity investment firm, one of
the largest such firms in the United States.

In 1994, he ran for
Senator of Massachusetts and lost to Ted Kennedy.

He was President
and CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

In 2002, he was elected
Governor of the State of Massachusetts where he eliminated a 1.5 billion
deficit.

Some Interesting Facts about
Romney:

Bain Capital, starting with one small office supply store
in Massachusetts, turned it into Staples; now over 2,000 stores employing
90,000 people.

Bain Capital also worked to perform the same kinds
of business miracles again and again, with companies like Domino's,
Sealy, Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger
King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama, Home Depot Supply and many
others.

He was an unpaid volunteer campaign worker for his dad's
gubernatorial campaign 1 year.

He was an unpaid intern in his dad's
governor's office for eight years.

He was an unpaid bishop and
state president of his church for ten years.

He was an unpaid
President of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee for three years.

He
took no salary and was the unpaid Governor of Massachusetts for four
years.

He gave his entire inheritance from his father to
charity.

Mitt Romney is one of the wealthiest self-made men in our
country but has given more back to its citizens in terms of money, service
and time than most men.

And in 2011 Mitt Romney gave over $4
million to charity, almost 19% of his income.

Just for comparison
purposes, Obama gave 1% and Joe Biden gave $300 or .0013%.

Mitt Romney is
Trustworthy:

He will show us his birth certificate. He will show us
his high school and college transcripts. He will show us his social
security card. He will show us his law degree. He will show us
his draft notice. He will show us his medical records. He will
show us his income tax records. He will show us he has nothing to
hide.

Mitt Romney's background, experience and trustworthiness show
him to be a great leader and an excellent citizen for President of the
United States. You may think that Romney may not be the best
representative the Republicans could have selected.

At least you
know what religion he is, and that he won't desecrate the flag, bow down
to foreign powers, or practice fiscal irresponsibility.

I know he has
the ability to turn this financial debacle that the current regime has
gotten us into. We won't like all the things necessary to recover from
this debt, but someone with Romney's background can do it.

But, on
the minus side, he never was a "Community Organizer", never took drugs or
smoked pot, never got drunk, did not associate with communists or
terrorists, nor did he attend a church whose pastor called for God to damn
the United States.

Update February 9, 2009: The worldwide financial crisis has made it harder on banks and credit card companies are facing rising delinquency...

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